Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), July 2015

by: quantSystematic
text: Boston, MA or Remote<p>Developer &#x2F; Assistant Researcher - Quantitative Investment Strategies [ Freelance &#x2F; Part-Time &#x2F; Boston Area &#x2F; Remote Available ]<p>Hi, I’m a Boston-based investment fund portfolio manager. I’m looking for a freelance &#x2F; part-time developer and research assistant for systematic strategy research. This work is with a successful team at an established world-class firm. Investment areas include currencies, interest rates, equities and commodities. Work includes developing code “building blocks” for use testing new investment ideas, programming in MATLAB&#x2F;R&#x2F;Python, and assembling and exploring new datasets. Programming experience is a must.<p>Position Description - Develop code for analyzing and testing quantitative investment strategies. - Work will include building basic functionality and more advanced ideas. - Collaborate with portfolio management team to develop new strategies and analytics. - Work remotely on your own schedule. - Meet regularly at our offices or remotely to discuss results and plan projects. - Maintain an open line of communication. We will provide guidance and feedback on your work.<p>Qualifications - Proven ability to work independently, communicate, and reliably deliver results. - Strong programming ability. Experience with MATLAB&#x2F;R&#x2F;Python. MATLAB preferred. - Professional programming experience is a plus. - Experience with statistical and mathematical modeling, machine learning, etc. is a plus. - Finance experience is a plus but is not required. - I’m willing to consider all backgrounds. Most candidates come from the hard sciences, engineering, math, finance and economics. - We like Boston-area candidates who can meet at our offices, but this isn’t required. Finding the right person is more important than location.<p>This is an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to a world-class investment firm and learn about systematic investing. This would be an ideal position for an experienced candidate or a current undergrad, Masters or PhD student or recent grad. All candidates are welcome to apply, including experienced candidates and professional freelancers. Strong performance could lead to significant future opportunities including full-time positions and internships.<p>Contact: quantsystematic &lt; at gmail &gt;<p>Please include a resume and any links to github&#x2F;linkedIn&#x2F;publications&#x2F;etc. you&#x27;d like us to see.<p>[Note that I have another position listed on this thread as well]

by: xroja
text: Stanford, CA<p>Database Architect &#x2F; Admin &#x2F; Developer<p>Hi, I&#x27;m a developer in a small development team working in a research lab. We curate a knowledgebase of pharmacogenetic data by having PhDs use a web application to annotate scientific literature and related data. We&#x27;re relatively small so we operate like a startup (read: a lot of autonomy) within our department.<p>Project Description - We are looking for a freelancer to work on a fixed-term project that should only take 1 or 2 months to complete. Our knowledgebase is a Tomcat Java webapp backed by an Oracle RDBMS with a Hibernate layer in between. We&#x27;d like someone to migrate our existing Oracle RDBMS to PostgreSQL, ensure the integrity of all migrated data, and optimize to perform like a well-oiled machine. The database itself is a non-clustered, non-replicated, single instance (pretty straight-forward).<p>Qualifications - We need someone with experience architecting and deploying both Oracle and PostgreSQL architectures in a linux environment (RHEL&#x2F;Ubuntu). Optionally, it would be great if you&#x27;re competant in Java or have a DevOps-type background.  Our institute requires applicants to have a bachelor&#x27;s degree (or equivalent years of directly applicable work experience).<p>Contact: feedback@pharmgkb.org - Send us a resume, CV, portfolio page, github profile, or whatever and we can start the conversation.

by: Masoumeh
text: Remote<p>Location: Rochester, NY
Remote: OK
Start date: 07&#x2F;2015<p>We are looking for an experienced back-end developer to help us design and implement the server-side solution for a quantified-self web application.<p>The major goals of the app (to be completed by the developer) are as follows:<p>- Design and implement (in collaboration with front-end developers) an API for data communication. 
- Receive data from the device and store on the server. 
- Run data analysis scripts (written in Python) on the received data and save the results in a database (MongoDB). The Python scripts are written by the data analysts and will be provided. 
- Add transaction logging capability to the server.
- Help us decide on the best strategy for log data analysis.<p>Qualifications: 
- Proven track record of web app development and delivering results reliably. 
- We would prefer to do the development using Python web frameworks (Django or Flask), but this is not a firm requirement.
- Experience with SQL and MongoDB.
- Provide progress updates and results on a regular basis.<p>This work is an ongoing collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and industry on a quantified-self device and provides a very good opportunity to expand your portfolio.<p>If interested, email mxheen@rit.edu with your Github account, a short explanation of why you&#x27;re interested and any links to previous relevant experience.

by: AGresvig
text: SEEKING FREELANCER, remote or on-site in Oslo, Norway. Part-time<p>We&#x27;re building a next generation CMS platform, featuring breakthrough ease-of-use and a beautiful UI.<p>It is ReactJS-based application built on a NodeJS platform with an MSSQL DB. Tools like Webpack and Babel are heavily leveraged.<p>We are currently four employees, two in Oslo &amp; two in St Petersburg (three devs and one designer). We currently have a lot of work on our hands, and need help in one or more of the following areas:<p>- REST API - help expand our ExpressJS based REST API to create CRUD endpoints to our MSSQL database
- Building a ReactJS &quot;upload image&quot; widget to integrate with Cloudinary.com image management service
- Expand our JS test coverage using Mocha, Sinon &amp; Chai
- Build an integration-test strategy using Protractor&#x2F;Sauce Labs&#x2F;Browserstack
- Work with images - PDF &amp; bitmap to SVG, image optimization using Imagemagick, resizing, uploading to Amazon S3 etc
- DBA-related work - management of our SQL-based data-store
- Azure cloud management - help us set up automated builds, backups, and general application management in Azure<p>If you feel you can help out in one or more of these, please do contact!:
aksel @ plyo.io<p>You&#x27;ll get to work with a small but skilled team, dedicated to great UX &amp; UI, craftmanship, and open source. We created React-starter-kit - check it out for a preview of our code structure and workflow.<p>Requirements:
- English working language
- Availability 4 hrs&#x2F;day within 9AM-5PM GMT +1
- Great written and good verbal english skills<p>Initially less than 30hrs&#x2F;week employment.
Possibility for full-time engagement if things work out!

by: scandox
text: SEEKING FREELANCER. Dublin, Ireland. REMOTE is good. I&#x27;m looking for a collaborator on development projects.<p>I have good clients and I manage sales, project management and backend development. I&#x27;m looking for someone with excellent HTML5 &#x2F; CSS &#x2F; Javascript ability and a very strong visual sense, who enjoys working on the frontend. Especially someone with the ability to keep things simple, when large amounts of information are involved.<p>I have an immediate need for someone to work on a project with me. The amount of work is about 3 -4 weeks for someone who knows what they are doing. I have an excellent budget, but I&#x27;m also willing to renegotiate upwards with the client if I find someone really good. I believe in paying serious money for skilled people.<p>It may be necessary for you to meet with the clients here in Ireland. If it is then I will pay travel costs and accomodation (nothing fancy - but fun and friendliness is guaranteed...if you like fun...which isn&#x27;t mandatory).<p>scandox (at) gmail.com

by: geku
text: Remote<p>We are looking for a Ruby&#x2F;Rails developer to support us with our projects at CloudGear. Technologies used are Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Docker, Consul. You should be an experienced Ruby programmer with a strong interest in PaaS, DevOps and infrastructure automation. We are working on a product and have interesting challenges ahead. You will work together with the founder: starting with stories, to architecture and the final implementation and with a high impact on the product, too.<p>60 - 100% for at least 6 months.<p>Location doesn&#x27;t really matter but preferable in a similar time zone. We are based in Europe.
Please let me know if you&#x27;re interested in working with us: georg (at) cloudgear.net - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudgear.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudgear.net</a>

by: the-swa
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>==================<p>JUXT is a Creative Innovation Agency based out of San Francisco, CA.<p>We are on the hunt for kick-ass creative technologists (remote and local.) Primarily we are interested in things like these (in order of importance):<p>- &quot;Creative Coding&quot;: Unity, Cinder, Openframeworks, TouchDesigner, etc.<p>- Web Technologies: node.js, python, ruby, php, etc.<p>- Databases &amp; Queuing: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.<p>- DevOps: Docker, Vagrant, CI&#x2F;CD, etc.<p>- Hardware &amp; Microcontrollers: Arduino, Tessel, etc.<p>We are expecting to have a lot of new work beginning in about a month, but always open to chat and expand our pool of trusted vendors. Check out our work at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.juxt.com&#x2F;work" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.juxt.com&#x2F;work</a>. If you think we may be a good match, let us know why by sending a message &amp; CV to jobs@juxt.com<p>Cheers!

by: johladam
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Seeking a freelancer&#x2F; SME to produce an early stage prototype for a small side project. Essentially, need some help rewriting HTML responses dynamically using Ngninx and Lua. Example would be writing up a script that we can feed in to Nginx that will take a resource url (ie ads.google.com) and hide it behind the domain of a site (ie news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;ads.google.com) and replace it on response without having to run code on an application server.<p>This is expected to be a short term engagement.<p>Email: j.adamson93@gmail.com

by: mdolon
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote, Contract&#x2F;Part Time only<p>I have several web development clients at the moment and in need of high-quality freelancers to outsource work to. If you are interested in consistent pay and relatively simple projects, please get in touch.<p>Desired skills: HTML&#x2F;HAML, CSS (SASS&#x2F;LESS), JS (jQuery, Backbone.js), Ruby (Rails), Python, PHP, Photoshop, UX&#x2F;UI design, Bootstrap, Foundation, Wordpress<p>Contact: mdolon [at] gmail

by: stove
text: SF &#x2F; Remote OK<p>Seeking freelance Rails developer for building MVP of new web app. No existing codebase. Looking for passionate, motivated &amp; independent person with excellent communication skills.<p>Please send any existing Rails SaaS apps you can along with rates and resume to stevebeyatte (at) gmail

by: quantSystematic
text: Boston, MA or Remote<p>Consultant &#x2F; Expert &#x2F; Tutor for Machine Learning &#x2F; Statistics &#x2F; Econometrics &#x2F; Quantitative Finance - Quantitative Investment Strategies<p>[ Consulting &#x2F; Freelance &#x2F; Part-Time &#x2F; Boston Area &#x2F; Remote Available ]<p>Hi, I’m a Boston-based investment fund portfolio manager. I specialize in systematic (computer-driven) investment strategies. I’m looking for people with deep expertise or experience in any of [Machine Learning &#x2F; Deep Learning &#x2F; Statistics &#x2F; Econometrics &#x2F; Quantitative Finance] to work with me as consultants &#x2F; experts &#x2F; tutors in these areas. I have knowledge in each of these areas. I’m looking for people I can consult with to further develop my knowledge and think about applications of these disciplines to investing. Right now I’m thinking of this as a series of interactions rather than one big engagement, but I’m flexible and open to ideas from you. Here are some project ideas for starters:<p>-	Teaching me about your area of expertise and discussing applications of these methods to investing
-	Guiding best practices for real-world applications
-	Discussing and reviewing new cutting-edge academic research
-	Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of these methods 
-	Consulting on the use of open-source tools and software
- Help guide and tutor my own study in these areas	
-	Collaborate with portfolio management team to develop new strategies and analytics<p>Qualifications: Experience or expertise in one or more of [Machine Learning &#x2F; Deep Learning &#x2F; Statistics &#x2F; Econometrics &#x2F; Quantitative Finance &#x2F; etc]. I’m open to many backgrounds: academic research and experience or applied on-the-job expertise. Strong communication skills a must. Finance experience is not required. I’m willing to consider all backgrounds. I like Boston-area candidates who can meet at our offices, but this isn’t required. Finding the right person is more important than location.<p>This work is with a successful team at an established world-class firm. Investment areas include currencies, interest rates, equities, futures and commodities. This is an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to a world-class investment firm and learn about systematic investing. This could be an ideal engagement for an experienced candidate or a current Masters or PhD student or recent grad. All candidates are welcome to apply, including experienced candidates and professional freelancers. Strong performance could lead to significant future opportunities including full-time positions and internships.<p>Contact: quantsystematic &lt; at gmail &gt;<p>Please include a resume and any links to github&#x2F;linkedIn&#x2F;publications&#x2F;etc. you&#x27;d like us to see.<p>[Note that I have another position listed on this thread as well]

by: saosebastiao
text: currently Seattle but likely moving to Portland in the future, and remote work is definitely possible.<p>I&#x27;m currently working on the side on a project, but planning to go full time on it within 6 months or so. My partner and I are working on a fairly ambitious MVP, some of which involves native front end development in which I&#x27;m inexperienced. I can do the work, but my iteration time is pretty suboptimal. Since we&#x27;ve got a few soft-committed potential customers, we&#x27;re looking to outsource some of the front end work to speed it all up.<p>I&#x27;m looking for someone with substantial experience with the Xamarin platform AND&#x2F;OR (preferably AND) Windows Universal development. I value people who know how to keep a code base small and share as much as possible across platforms. If you happen to know F# very well, then that is a huge plus, although not required (I would much rather work with F# than C#, but I realize the infrastructure is pretty immature to rely on).<p>Known knowns about our architecture: Postgres database and Play Framework in Scala for a service backend (including both REST and web sockets) hosted on AWS.<p>Pretty sure about our architecture, and what we need help with: a fairly complex Windows Universal pure touch app with some limited (likely USB-based) hardware interaction, communicating with the web service. Smaller and much simpler Xamarin mobile apps (iOS and Android definitely, WinPhone too but a lower priority) also communicating with the web service.<p>About me: I come from a very non-traditional development background...educated in Supply Chain Management and learning code to be able to do my very analytics-oriented job better. I started with R (and still use it extensively), have worked with Ruby, Python, and Clojure, but have slowly adapted to and now overwhelmingly prefer strongly typed ML-descendent languages such as Scala, F#, Rust, and OCaml. I&#x27;m a huge proponent of making invalid states unrepresentable through the type system. The majority of my experience is in more data oriented systems with lots of pipeline-type architectures, including lots of simulations. I have lots of experience with tasks that you would expect from someone that has Operations Research or Data Scientist in their titles. I don&#x27;t have much experience with REST-based systems, but I have found it pretty damn easy to learn over the last year in my free time. I don&#x27;t have much experience with front end design, but haven&#x27;t had much trouble picking up React.js. I have, however, been slow to pick up native front end design.<p>I&#x27;m open to cofounder proposals, but realize that if that happens it will likely be after some amount of freelance work, both for your sake and ours.<p>My email address is in my profile, but will likely remove it within a week or two for spam reasons (I really wish HN would let us delete old posts!).